OUTLOOK GOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1938, Page 8

OUTLOOK GOOD.

FEW WORKLESS.

PROGRESS IN S.A.

VALUE OF GOLD INDUSTRY. After 38 years in South Africa, where lie liiip. been connected with the mining indu-iry. Captain J. E. Donald arrived ;it Auckland to-day by the Waniirtnellii to rperid a short holiday in Xew Zealand before going to England. Tie went to South Africa with an English regiment at the time of the Boer War. in the last war lie took part ill the fi-jhtinsr in East Africa and he has vi-ited the but his long association has been with Johannesburg, which he lias e-een grow from a small place into a crreat citv.

< attain Donald said that gold had made South Africa a very prosperous country, nnd owing to the hijrh price thev could work reefs which had to be

left untouched in the old days. As the centre of the industry, Johannesburg was extraordinarily prosperous, a tremendous amount of building was croing on, and some of the new structures were 17 storeys high.

Captain Donald said that South Africa had very little real unemployment, and the general outlook was good.

There were political differences, just ae there would be in any other country, but the people were otherwise united. The country was bi-lingual, and the qualification for the Civil Service was the speaking of both languages and also at least three years' residence in South Africa.

Captain Donald remarked on the keenness for sport in South Africa, and the general delight that there was in Johannesburg- when the news came through that the South Africans had won the rubber in the Rugby Tests in New Zealand. Golf was one of the most popular sports. The fishing was not particularly attractive inland, but it was quite good at some places along the South African roast, although it could not be described as a fisherman's paradise.